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Full Idea
In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object.
Gist of Idea
In a logically perfect language, there will be just one word for every simple object
Source
Bertrand Russell (The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918], §II)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Russell's Logical Atomism', ed/tr. Pears,David [Fontana 1972], p.52
A Reaction
In other words, there would be no universals, only names? All that matters is that a language can successfully refer (unambiguously) to anything it wishes to. There must be better ways than Russell's lexical explosion.